Posted on 11/10/2025 5:52:01 AM PST by Red Badger
Two top bosses at the BBC, including Tim Davie, its director-general and editor-in-chief, have resigned after a bombshell report found it “doctored” video of a speech President Donald Trump gave to make it appear like he was calling on his supporters to “fight” and be violent during the Jan. 6 Capitol Riot.
BBC News CEO Deborah Turness joined Davie in quitting; she resigned on Saturday, and Davie quit on Sunday. Their resignations come less than a week after The Telegraph reported editors for Panorama, the BBC’s longest-running investigative series, duped viewers during an October 2024 special by altering the sequence of a speech Trump gave in 2021.
“I wanted to let you know that I have decided to leave the BBC after 20 years. This is entirely my decision, and I remain very thankful to the Chair and Board for their unswerving and unanimous support throughout my entire tenure, including during recent days,” Davie said in a statement.
He added “there have been some mistakes made and as Director-General I have to take ultimate responsibility.” He did not specifically reference the doctored Trump footage or any other errors in particular.
Turness did reference The Telegraph report in her own statement, saying “the ongoing controversy around the Panorama on President Trump has reached a stage where it is causing damage to the BBC — an institution that I love.”
She added “the buck stops with me,” and said the report does not prove the BBC is “institutionally biased.”
Their resignations comes after Panorama was exposed for misleadingly editing Trump’s speech to supporters in early 2021.
“We’re going to walk down to the Capitol, and I’ll be there with you. And we fight. We fight like hell,” Trump is heard saying on the program.
In reality, he said: “We’re going to walk down to the Capitol, and we’re going to cheer on our brave senators and congressmen and women.”
Trump, a moment later, added he wanted his supporters to “peacefully and patriotically” make their voices heard — something that was left out of the 2024 special, titled Trump: A Second Chance?
An internal UK government report, which The Telegraph’s story is based on, found the show “completely misled” viewers with its editing.
“Examining the charge that Trump had incited protesters to storm Capitol Hill, it turned out that Panorama had spliced together two clips from separate parts of his speech. This created the impression that Trump said something he did not and, in doing so, materially misled viewers,” wrote Michael Prescott, a media advisor who led the report on BBC bias.
In reality, he said: “We’re going to walk down to the Capitol, and we’re going to cheer on our brave senators and congressmen and women.”
Trump, a moment later, added he wanted his supporters to “peacefully and patriotically” make their voices heard — something that was left out of the 2024 special, titled Trump: A Second Chance?
An internal UK government report, which The Telegraph’s story is based on, found the show “completely misled” viewers with its editing.
“Examining the charge that Trump had incited protesters to storm Capitol Hill, it turned out that Panorama had spliced together two clips from separate parts of his speech. This created the impression that Trump said something he did not and, in doing so, materially misled viewers,” wrote Michael Prescott, a media advisor who led the report on BBC bias.
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Propaganda from Brits? pUKe
Just a resignation? Doesn’t this warrant something more?
Just a resignation? Doesn’t this warrant something more?
Old Bailey.
“mistakes made”
Uh-huh
Maybe US submarines should be blasting the correct footage into Britons’ heads, Lo-Tek style.
the left lies as a matter of course
Tyburn.
Albert Pierrepoint....White Courtesy Phone.
Don’t know what British slander and libel laws are..............
I’d prefer Jack Ketch, a sot who was more of a butcher than an executioner.
If it’s worth doing, it’s worth doing wrong.
Absolutely. They're foreign-state actors directly involved in the foreign interference with our elections. In addition, they're guilty of illegal political contributions-in-kind. They need to be sitting in Guantanamo Bay.
In addition, the BBC needs to be shut off from any broadcast in the United States.
The BBC WAS a fine news organization living off the public teat. As they grew in strength over many decades they took turns for the worse by allowing an extreme agenda (Left) politics to become their main stay.
Anyone who has watched them over the past few decades could see that honest reporting and integrity were thrown out the window in favor of Left, biased pseudo-journalism.
They have become rotten to the core and totally corrupt and that is why they should be broken up and rebuilt as a private corporation no longer reliant on sucking funds from the public in order to demonstrate their biases.
Enough is enough.
Trump is such a bad guy yet the left always has to lie to try and discredit him.
It amazes me that they had to resign. The BBC is a hardcore Woke / Leftist organization. Their goal is to shape opinion, not report accurately. Lying is part of shaping opinion. The only - and I mean only - reason they did this is because they were afraid of getting sued.
There’s anew King on the throne and another waiting in the wings..............
Thanks. I did not know that.
Let’s face it. BBC sucks. They hate Americans and love the U.S. Communists who robbed the U.S. taxpayers and pass out our money to their foreigner friends.
“Radio Free Britain”, I like it.
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